We are the students from 3/4C at Barwon Heads Primary School in Victoria, Australia. There are 26 of us and our teacher is Miss Jordan. We use this space to share all of the fantastic things that are happening in our classroom.

During recent word study lessons, we have been learning about parts of speech.

Specifically, we have investigated:

Common nouns

Proper nouns

Pronouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Adverbs

There are other parts of speech to learn too, as well as a variety of other grammar terms, so we have these posters in our classroom to refer to.

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Adjectives and adverbs make writing more interesting to read. Learning about these parts of speech will help our writing skills develop. We are writing narratives this week, so hopefully the stories contain lots of adjectives and adverbs!

When brainstorming adverbs, most of our examples had the suffix ‘-ly’ and described how a verb is performed. For example, quickly, strongly, confidently. But there are actually five different types of adverbs we use in our speech and writing.

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We discussed that every complete sentence contains a noun and a verb.

Sometimes the verb in a sentence is not as obvious as a clear “doing word”. For example, in the sentence “I go swimming at the beach in summer”, swimming is obviously the verb. But the word go is also a verb.

The words in red below are also verbs:

He is good at football.

Do you have my iPad?

I will go for a run tomorrow.

Verbs can be present tense or past tense.

You will notice a pattern in the verbs above. The past tense verbs all contain the ‘-ed’ suffix and the present tense verbs also have consistent suffixes.

There are some verbs that do not follow this rule. They are called irregular verbs. Do you know what irregular verbs are?

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Can you find out what irregular verbs are? List some examples in your comment!